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"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."
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Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances and romanticises his provincial upbringing. A total of 1,561 epigrams writte
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"Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi."
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"Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum: Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum"
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"Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane; Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus."
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"The greatest of epigrammatists, and the father of the epigram as we understand it."
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"Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own."
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